Example sentences of "and thus [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly it belongs to John Major himself , for taking to the hustings , and restoring , a cutting edge to the party dialogue — and thus taking the Central Office by the scruff of the neck and lifting it out of the doldrums into which it had sunk . |
| 2 | After the Second World War — during which time Fred served as a Special in the Metropolitan Police and later in the Royal Artillery — he put in another 111 League appearances and thus became the only Palace player to make a century of appearances on each side of the war . |
| 3 | She succeeded Leif Haraldseth and thus became the first woman to hold the post . |
| 4 | ‘ Just the job , ’ thought the enthusiastic Gary , and thus became the first person in history to attempt to convert a quartet of Jehovah 's Witness . |
| 5 | Its populace formed the nucleus of the mob that attacked the Bastille ( July 1789 ) , and thus began the French Revolution . |
| 6 | It can also provide the rationale for arguing that certain perceptions and beliefs conceal real social contradictions and thus present an inadequate representation of reality . |
| 7 | As a staff development activity it is designed to be of both immediate and long-term use in the classroom and school setting , and thus meets an important stipulation for effective in-service work . |
| 8 | Before World War II , Brazil introduced high rates of effective protection for local manufacturers against imports ( up to nearly 70 per cent during the 1960s ) and thus created a strong and enduring anti-export bias ( Balassa , 1985 : p. 27 ) . |
| 9 | The outcomes of the decisions of the individual are stochastic , so that two individuals who have the same opportunity set and the same tastes , and thus make the same decisions , may still have different incomes . |
| 10 | Nominated by his dying brother as Lord High Protector of the realm during the boy king 's minority , he had just returned from Scotland where , at the head of a powerful army , he had re-taken Berwick in his brother 's name and thus nullified the Scottish King 's threat of a full-scale invasion . |
| 11 | Equally , I am prepared to advocate that , in historical terms , the time has arrived , in the absence of other viable legal institutions , to forsake the requirement of bisexuality and thus abandon the negative definitive criterion of homosexuality , if indeed it is such a criterion . |
| 12 | All of these appointments could be used to help friends and thus to sustain a political interest . |
| 13 | President Truman and his advisers were anxious over Sino-Soviet relations and wondered whether American forces could take the port of Dairen and thus prevent the Soviet Union from occupying the Liaotung peninsula of south Manchuria . |
| 14 | The effect of the document , it was held , was to prevent the sale being a sale by description and thus exclude the implied condition in s13 of the SGA 1979 . |
| 15 | But what really bugs our Sharon is that they dare to show any football at all and thus interrupt the daily stream of soap sludge . |
| 16 | The density of CO2 at s.t.p. is thus given by It should be noted that the calculation is based on the assumptions that ( a ) CO2 obeys Avogadro 's law at s.t.p. and ( b ) CO2 is an ideal gas and thus obeys the ideal gas equation . |
| 17 | The ‘ rural method ’ entails no separate second fermentation ; it is merely a continuation of the first process , the wines being bottled before it terminates and thus allowing the first fermentation to continue in the bottle . |
| 18 | In 1836 Gossage devised a method of absorbing the acid gas in which a steady stream of water descending a tower ( the ‘ Gossage tower ’ ) containing twigs , bracken , and bricks , came in contact with a steady stream of the gas ascending the tower , so dissolving it and thus bringing the dangerous nuisance under a high degree of control . |
| 19 | He submitted that the court should not in principle vary the injunction at the behest of the contemner , and thus increase the adverse consequences upon the plaintiffs . |
| 20 | Although using hydrogel lenses to administer medication increases the bioavailability of the drug and thus allows a lower dose to be given , the treatment is expensive and problems may arise if long periods of extended wear are necessary . |
| 21 | of income in the north of Ireland — and that the hill livestock farmer depends very much on such payments at this time of year , will he ensure that these payments and other headage payments are made in accordance with the rules and regulations and thus assist the distraught financial circumstances especially of the small farmer who has been paid scant regard in the House this afternoon ? |
| 22 | In this reply the United States undertook to take certain action at the request of either or both of the parties in the event of an actual or threatened violation of the agreement , and thus guaranteed the continued observance of the Peace Treaty . |
| 23 | Their main significance is that by predicating the breach on damage to the interests of creditors and thus expanding the corporate constituency it no longer automatically follows that the breach should be ratifiable by the shareholders . |
| 24 | Secondly , the Convention may itself prescribe a conflicts rule and thus displace the normal conflicts rules of the forum . |
| 25 | The buyer was going to re-sell the goods and it was recognised that the buyer 's sub-purchaser would test the weight and thus ascertain the precise sum to be paid to the seller . |
| 26 | Through watching his father in these activities , the boy gradually learns how to handle his digging-stick , and thus becomes a practical agriculturist . |
| 27 | Students in the USA had to go out on placement to firms for training , and thus had a good grounding in practical embalming . |
| 28 | Southport Railway Centre also ran its usual trains , again using the LMS Brakevans , over the Spring Bank Holiday , and thus had the unusual , possibly unique distinction of being the only preservation organisation running trains on its own lines and also on another , privately owned line at the same time . |
| 29 | The present policy of the UK government towards the exchange rate , to which we alluded in Section 9.5.1 , is to prevent depreciation , and one of the reasons for this policy is an anxiety that a depreciating pound would raise costs of imports and thus cause a further deterioration in the inflationary situation . |
| 30 | On March 9 , the day before the first session of the new Assembly , President Paul Biya held talks with MDR leader Dakole Diassala , reportedly in an attempt to secure the MDR 's support for the RPDC , and thus to give the ruling party an absolute majority in the Assembly . |